Today is the first of March, the feast of Saint David of Menevia, – ‘Dewi Sant’ – the patron saint of Wales.  He is celebrated also in the Irish calendar as he was a friend of many of the main figures in the early Irish Church. One of the teachings which he passed on is beautiful in its lucidity and its wisdom. He said simply, Do the little things in life. We are sometimes concerned with the “direction” of our lives, in working out how we can make an impact, how we can get to the top of the mountain. This can mean that we spend part of the time in the future, in imagining various scenarios, waiting for our life to begin sometime later.  By doing this, we can miss all the possibilities that are right in front of us now, or allow  moments go which will never return. David reminds us to concern ourselves with what is in front of us just now,  to be mindful of this moment. We do not have to live  tomorrow, or next week just yet. He reminds us to make the journey one step at a time. In keeping with a Welsh theme, we try to keep our focus on the path down in the valley, not on the heights we like to conceive for ourselves.